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News/Notes:CrossFit Kids Summer program was a great success! Thank you to all the kids and parents who participated, we had tons of fun and we hope you all did too. We will take a hiatus and go back to the regular schedule in September.
Varsity will kick off again Monday Septmber 12 @ 5:00pm
JV will resume Wednesday September 14 @ 4:10pm

Bill O’Donnell will be hosting the 7th Annual Jimmy Open to support the James Ryan O’Donnell Memorial Fund Saturday September 17, 2016 at Waters Edge CC. Jimmy is a Brother Rice Alum (95) who passed too soon and Bill hosts the event to celebrate the life and legacy of Jimmy. All donations and contributions to the golf outing will be dispersed to charities and non-profits around the Chicagoland area. For more info, tee time or to make a contribution please call Bill @ 708-768-7484

We have a lot of new things coming up as we get ready to celebrate our 6th year. September 6 is our official CrossFit BDay (The day CFB became a CrossFit Affiliate) and with a new year comes new ideas.

How would you feel about a Sunday morning “Yoga in the Box?” Please respond in comments to see if testing this would be something to pursue.

Would you like to win a $50 Horse Thief Hollow gift card? Check in at CrossFit Beverly on Facebook with a fun photo of yourself between now and Labor Day and we will award the quirkiest, most fun check in a $50 HTH gift card.

We are going to schedule an additional Boot Camp on Saturday mornings at 8:15am before Team WOD. Keep an eye out for when we will be starting. Tenative start date is Saturday September 17.

We will also be launching “Bring a Buddy Tuesday’s.” Beginning September 13 and every other Tuesday will be designated as an opportunity to allow athletes new to CrossFit to experience the community. This is an open invitation to all hours we hold classes on Tuesdays. If you have friends who can only attend 5am, bring ’em. While we enjoy and find value in the Free Intro sessions held on Saturday’s and Wednesday’s, we think to get the real CFB experience athletes new to CrossFit should experience a regular class. So share this with your friends and family and let’s show them how great CFB is.

Since September 11 falls on a Sunday we will be running 3-4-3 on Saturday September 10. This will be in place of the Team WOD and we ask all our firefighter friends who may have extra bunker gear to bring it to the Box to share. This will be an open event to anyone, member or not, to participate. Please clear your calendar and plan to be here. We have made T-Shirts for the event and I think they came out great. Thank you Michael Myren for putting the design together and ready for print.

With the new shirt order, I will also be restoking the mercahndise in front. Does anyone want/need a hoodie? Kate Z has asked for another order of sweatpants, would anyone else like to get a pair? Malopy wants dude Tanks, anyone else? Let me know either in person or responding to this post and we can place a large order at once.

Our strict pull ups cycle is progressing nicely and the feedback is pretty amazing. I’ve heard “I’ve got to get in today, I have to get my 50 pull ups in. Improvements in performance and strength has increased and we are so pleased to see and hear the positive feedback. I can already personally see and feel the improvements on my T2B and C2B. The goal is to be more proficient with our strict gymnastics work which ultimately help us with our kipping pull ups, C2B, bar MUs and Ring MUs. We will be advancing this week to strict C2B. This will be a litle more difficult and will require thicker bands. The coaches will offer a tutorial of effective C2B hand and shoulder position for maximum efficiency.

Great job to all who performed 95% on Thursday. We will now progress on this program by adding the Jerk to your Cleans and we will be upping the reps to 2 per minute on both Snatch and C&J. We will go back down to 60% and climb 5% per week. While I know 60% will be easy, please trust the program and use the light weeks to focus on set up and form. Olympins don’t go heavy every day, there is a lot of skill work being done which isn’t so glamorous.

There has been a release of upcoming Comps to consider in the fall. Get a team or go it alone and show your chops.

September 17-18 “Best of the Rest” CrossFit Roselle. This is a comp for anyone who has never stood on podium in a CrossFit comp or Rx’ed a competition. This is a great, well run event that is a lot of fun and outdoors. Individuals Saturday 9-17 Scaled and Rx, and Teams of 3 Sunday 9-18 Scaled and Rx. Teams must have at least 1 lady. http://crossfitroselle.com/3rd-annual-best-rest-competition/

TO ALL PARENTS!!! Before leaving the box, if you bring children, please look around the area your children were in. If you brought with them chips, crackers, pretzels or other snacks; If you they got a cup of water; If they had paper, crayons or markers out; If they went in to the back and grabbed balls or jump ropes, if they turned on the TV to watch a movie, please clean up after them. We have brooms and dust pans in the laundry room. Please respect the coaches and staff to not have to clean up after your children. Much like you clean up your gear after a workout we would appreciate the same with the children.